I did not (yet) have a lot of opportunities to play games at events and conventions this year. I even had to give Salute 2013 a miss. Oh well. With a few deadlines out of the way, I thought I’d jump back in. In particular, I think it is about time to redeem my DreadBall Kickstarter-ticket [...]
Pictures of Season One MVPs for DreadBall
Mantic Games’ Blog just concluded a week of DreadBall coverage. Having pledge a sizable chunk of money to the DreadBall Kickstarter, I was treated to the strangest of experiences. Day by day, blog-post by blog-post, I witnessed the slow reveal of miniatures I had already purchased! Anyhow, here are Mantic’s first batch of Most Valuable [...]
My ‘Locust City Chiefs’ win Mantic’s Z’zor Dreadball Team Naming Contest!
Two weeks ago I wrote a heads-up on a Dreadball naming contest. Mantic Games got in touch with Dakkadakka to hold a fan competition to name DreadBall’s Z’zor team. The aim was to find a name similarly reminiscent of known teams in the way their ‘Skittersneak Stealers’ or ‘Greenmoon Smackers’ teams are. Long story short: I won the [...]
Space Marines vs. Xenos: Who got the lovin’ in Warhammer 40K 5th Edition and who did not?
Warhammer 5th Edition is over. Everyone’s talking about Warhammer 40K 6th Edition now. Yet the final closing of 5th Edition also offer a unique moment to stop, look back and reflect on how those years have changed, for better or worse, the miniature wargame that still is – without a doubt – the big kid [...]